New Inlet was an inlet along the Outer Banks of North Carolina joining Pamlico Sound with the Atlantic Ocean.
It had not existed since 1945[1] before Hurricane Irene temporarily re-opened the inlet in 2011.
In 1933, the inlet, or at least one nearby, briefly reopened after a strong hurricane,[3] but it closed only a few months later.
[1] In 2017 the North Carolina Department of Transportation replaced a temporary road bridge on North Carolina Highway 12 spanning New Inlet with an "interim" bridge, so called due to ongoing efforts to resolve how to best route N.C. 12 through or around the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge.
This article about a location in Dare County, North Carolina is a stub.